THE FIRST OBSERVATION.
BY this we plainly find that there were usually two cohorts (which according to the rate of one hundred and twenty in a maniple amounted to the number of 720. men) which kept the
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BY this we plainly find that there were usually two cohorts (which according to the rate of one hundred and twenty in a maniple amounted to the number of 720. men) which kept the
day-watch before the gate of the Camp, and were alwayes in readinesse upon any service. The commodity whereof appeareth by this ac∣cident: for considering that the advertise∣ment required haste and speedy recourse, it greatly furthered their rescue, to have so many men ready to march forward at the first motion, that they might give what help they could untill the rest of their fellowes came in.